Friday, August 27, 2010

Hey everyone! I just moved, haven't figured out internet yet, the mail-order is a little disorganized at the moment. Tons of new stuff, though, hope to update all that as soon as I have a chance -- Brother Raven LPs, Holy Cheever Church tapes, Faux Pas tapes, Happy Jawbone Family Band LPs, so much stuff... huge batch of stuff on the way from Night-People... brand new Orca Team tape on Eggy, two more to follow ASAP (Nodobly and Earthmasters), a handful more before the end of September...Some stuff is sold out right now so make sure you email me before you paypal.

ARBOR:Cloak Light - Plain Curtain - $6Strange and intriguing piece on the A side that very carefully and simply creates a sonic space unlike anything I've come across. An AM radio sermon is folded onto itself several times so that while one voice is distinct, the others create a low murmur, reverberating and moving in a vast, imagined space. What's striking is the sense of nothingness beyond the activity of these several voices -- reminds me a lot of Beckett's The Lost Ones. Very mysterious.Gregg Kowalsky - Tape Chants: Early Experiments - $6Varied and visceral sound pieces that all share the emphasized, tactile mid-range of rough tape recordings. What's best about this stuff is its sense of mystery -- never quite knowing where or when the recordings were made, or what was being recorded. My favorite part is on side B when a high, organ-like tone is paired with a strange buzzing that sounds almost like a fly.Justin Meyers - The Amplitude of Neighbors - $6Deep, enveloping tone-work of weight and substance. The honey-like richness of Roland's beloved Juno 60 synthesizer tone is augmented with a sine-wave generator and electronics for a very appealing fullness of sound. Side B begins in a similar position to the flip but forgoes its low swells and visceral rumbling in favor of exploring the upper frequency territory of the drone-scape. Incredibly focused and well-executed stuff.BAKED TAPES:Driphouse - Romanti and Gains - $6Two long-form synth jammers. Side A is a head-nodder, riding a muted, loping groove through swells of synthesizer and keyboard figures until running into some very trippy and elastic territory. Tape speeds become vague, fever sets in. Side B is more monumental, probably some of my favorite Driphouse stuff to date. Slow filters, nice tones, epic eyes-on-the-setting-sun vibe, kind of an East coast Brother Raven thing.BEZOAR FORMATIONS:Sudden Oak - Causeways of the Sun - $5Sogol - Miniature Orbits - $5Radiant Husk - Points and Lines - $5

EGGY RECORDS:The Polyps - Twenty-colored Circle - Eggy Fifteen - $5This tape was conceived of as the sister tape to last year's "The Gong Is the Moon" on Night-People, further exploring the use of tape loops, synthesizer and homemade electronics in combination with simple song-form, but incorporating field recordings and a more pronounced audio-collage aesthetic. Three tracks; one ten-minute, side-length piece of '60s leaning pop fragments backed by Idea Fire Company-inspired synth drift, and two on the flip using mellow, electronic warble and some noisy crows.Street Gnar - s/t - Eggy Fourteen - $5Totally breezy, effortless pop. This is the latest missive from the Void Skateshop crew who are ripping it up in Kentucky, totally on a roll right now. Check out the Jovontaes tape if you haven't yet.Orca Team - s/t - Eggy Thirteen - $5Debut tape of reverb-y, surf-y, sock-hop-y tunes from Portland's most stylish trio. Orca Team are emerging as the anchor of Portland's lo-fi pop scene and it looks like they can only go up up up.The Woolen Men - Sunday - Eggy Number Twelve - $55 song missive from the Woolen Men goes from jangle-pop to extended freak-outery to big-melodied anthem keeping it short, sweet and catchy.Jovontaes - Masks of the Land - Eggy Number Eleven - $5Kentucky skater-kids discover krautrock, set the fidelity dial to "0" and pour on the sludge. Heavy duty.Mattress - WFMU Tape - Eggy Number Ten - $5Stripped down live recordings cherry-picking some of the best from the Mattress catalog, this tape is an essential document of Rex's magnetic stage energy backed by lean and mean drumming. The recording quality is excellent and the immediacy of these versions really compliment their more considered studio equivalents.Lame Drivers - Demoverse - Eggy Number Nine - $5After spending many years in East Coast basements honing their pop craft and rotting their brains on too much Gizmos, the Lame Drivers get weird on this tape. Not like stoned and jammy weird but like, hyper-crafted, manic genre-surfing weird. Very catchy despite the over-the-top nature. Lots of palm muting.The Woolen Men - Pavilion - Eggy Number Seven - $5Energy, melody, simplicity. Six songs starting down a good path.The Polyps - Fennel's Daughter 7" - Eggy Number One - $4EKHEIN:Evan Miller - Spool/Thread - $7Made at the same time as the tape for Gel and the four-way Taterbug, Treetops, Abelar Scout split on Young Tapes, I believe, "Thread" and "Spool" and both drone-focused guitar pieces. "Thread" is directly in the mode of the other tapes of this period -- simple, focused and balanced -- while "Spool" is more emotional and less stoic, and rides a slow, ethereal melody. It's a gorgeous piece, very reminiscent of Last Days Last Nights-era Popul Vuh in the way that it's quietly ecstatic.Rene Hell - Club Speed - $7Earn - Center Self - $7Everyday Loneliness - An Error In Judgment - $7Antiquity - Antiquity - $71958-2009 - III - $7

MISSISSIPPI RECORDS:Orchestre Regional De Mopti - S/T LP - $10Just take a look at those guys on the cover! I think it says it all -- the three fellas with electric guitars let you know that you're in for some hypnotic, poly-rhythmic, interwoven melody lines, while the traditional garb and pastoral setting let you know that this is no hard-hitting, psych-funk-afro-fusion affair, rather the music of the Mopti people taken a few clicks into the modern world. A wonderful, open, and at it's heart very strange record.Michael Hurley - Blue Hills LP - $10New recordings from Mr. Hurley, made largely in Astoria during the past year. Six songs in all, solo except for a little violin on the last one. Long, loose, emotional songs, stripped down to the essentials and played slow. Amen. Highlights include a version of "Tea Song," which was originally on Hurley's 1965 debut on Folkways -- one of those songs that just rolls over you like a steamroller, leaving you flat as a pancake -- and a very sweet, wistful new one called "Meara O'Reilly.Abner Jay - Folk Song Stylist LP - $10V/A - Fanajana: Field Recordings and Photography from Madagascar LP - $10Uke of Philips - Peppermint Birdhouse Tea Shanty Shack LP - $10V/A - I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore LP - $10V/A - Fight On Your Time Ain't Long LP - $10Joseph Spence - Good Morning, Mr. Walker LP - $10Rev. Louis Overstreet - An Evening With... LP - $10

NU NEW AGE:Driphouse - 50/50 - $6Probably the best Driphouse release to date, 50/50 breaks from the sprawling, fever-dream synth work of the previous tapes in favor of a clean, composed, sometimes ornate synth sound. There's a lot of space in these cuts, and a regal, unhurried air to the whole thing. Side B starts off with a quietly zonked piece beamed in from medieval outer-space and some weird harpsichord kicks the tape off. Driphouse is definitely on his own trip now and I'm glad I get to listen in.Oneohtrix Point Never/Caboladies - split - $6Jefre Sei Getsu Ledesma - Namu Kie Butsu - $6Rolling waves of abstract texture, like starting into a sea of mercury.

UHU TAPES:Ghost to Falco - $5WEIRD FOREST:Grouper - Wide LP - $15WUSS TAPES:Taco Leg/Constant Mongrel split - $5Good, clean, dumb fun from Australia. I be would surprised if any of the songs topped either two minutes or three chords, which is to say, this tape rules. Taco Leg got some sort of nod from Terminal Boredom recently, so they're on their way to making millions, no doubt. One of the two bands has a great song about Indiana Jones that gets stuck in my head all the time.

SELF-RELEASED:Pete Swanson - Ghost O Clock - $6Surprising new tape from Pete Swanson that totally made my day. Layer upon layer of molten guitar, chugging away while the overtones collide above, but everything anchored by a steady 4/4 throb. Side B really breaks the mold with some excellent, treble-y, sun-scorched riffing beneath the swell of blown out guitar and -- I think -- faraway sing-speaking. This shit is straight up New Zealand 1989. So good.

Pete Swanson - Challenger - $6Heavy synth and tape detritus, seething across the stereo field. Very intense, very dense stuff, in constant motion. Pete's modular synth work is great, pushing way beyond the nostalgia-warble and filter-twiddling sound that is du jour. Nice rhythmic stuff a little bit in a Black Dice vein, and the tape-work gives the proceedings a lot of motion and energy. Recording quality is great on this tape, you really get a sense of how deep these pieces go. $6

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